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"...the new technologies are subtly good at depriving us of rare pleasures while suffocating us with the illusion of choice." Alex Clark, The Observer, 15th October.

Here is this month's selection of news items of interest

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A-Z NEW & NOTABLE WEB SITES

Alion System Reliability Center

http://src.alionscience.com/

“The System Reliability Center (SRC), an Alion Science and Technology Center of Excellence has served the R & M Community for more than 35 years as a technical focal point for information, data, analysis, training and technical assistance in the engineering fields of Reliability, Maintainability, Supportability, and Quality (RMSQ).

The website provides a free technical Journal, a free bibliographic search at our extensive R&M library and a number of other technical resources.”

Analysis of data on scholarly journals publishing

http://www.rin.ac.uk/data-scholarly-journals

A report from the Research Information Network

Archive of the Now

http://www.archiveofthenow.com/

The Archive of the Now is an online and print repository of recordings, printed texts and manuscripts, focussing on innovative contemporary poetry being written or performed in Britain. It is part of the Brunel Centre for Contemporary Writing, at Brunel University in west London, UK.

AutomatedBuildings.com

http://www.automatedbuildings.com/index.htm

"AutomatedBuildings.com is an on line magazine and web resource providing the news, as well as connection to the exciting and rapidly evolving industry that automates large buildings. We have become the industries B2B web site providing connection for all new and existing automated building industry stakeholders."

Awareness Watch Newsletter

http://zillman.blogspot.com/2006/10/awareness-watch-newsletter-v4n11.html

The November 2006 V4N11 issue of Awareness Watch Newsletter is freely available from this address. The Awareness Watch Featured Report this month features Biological Informatics Resources.

Awareness Watch Newsletter.

http://zillman.blogspot.com/2006/09/awareness-watch-newletter-v4n10.html

The October 2006 V4N10 issue of the Awareness Watch Newsletter is freely available from this address. The Awareness Watch Featured Report this month features Financial Sources on the Internet including related online financial resources and sites.

Bio-Farma

http://www.bio-farma.com/

“Bio-Farma is an online resource for the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and drug discovery industries. Here you will find access to the latest industry news, jobs, events, market reports, including our unique databases and directories, containing information on pharmaceutical, biotech and service companies.

Bio-Farma currently provides a comprehensive directory of vendors of compounds, chemical building blocks, compound libraries, custom synthesis, peptide synthesis, lead optimization, and services that support drug discovery in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry.

Bio-Farma also provides a free structure searchable database of commercially available organic compounds for research and development and has also sourced over 3500 market and business reports concerning the bio-tech and pharma industry which can be browsed and bought online."

Business Information Trends: Adding Value and Creating Customised Applications

http://www.freepint.com/issues/051006.htm#feature

An article in FreePint, by Pam Foster.

Business of Government

http://www.businessofgovernment.org/main/publications/bog/

The Business of Government is a magazine dedicated to improving the management of government.

Content freely accessible in PDF format

Citizendium

http://www.citizendium.org/

The Citizendium, a "citizens' compendium of everything," will be an experimental new wiki project that combines public participation with gentle expert guidance.

Copyright Toolbox

http://www.surf.nl/copyrighttoolbox/

This copyright toolbox is a result of by SURF and the JISC funded research and activities and based upon the Zwolle conferences on Copyright management in higher education and the RoMEO research.

Current Cites

http://lists.webjunction.org/currentcites/2006/cc06.17.9.html

The September 2006 issue.

A team of librarians and library staff monitors information technology literature in both print and digital forms, each month selecting only the best items to annotate for this free publication. The resulting issue of 8-12 annotated citations of current literature is emailed to a mailing list and is redistributed on other electronic fora.

Digital Library for Earth System Education

http://dlese.org/library/index.jsp

“Like your local library, DLESE is made up of a wide variety of resources, collections, and services. DLESE's educational resources include lesson plans, scientific data, visualizations, interactive computer models, and virtual field trips—in short, any web-accessible teaching or learning material.”

Dissect Medicine

http://www.dissectmedicine.com/

Dissect Medicine is a collaborative medical news website, which indexes and ranks international medical news. It spans general interest articles to basic research.

DOE Pulse

http://www.ornl.gov/info/news/pulse/pulse_home.htm

DOE Pulse highlights work being done at the Department of Energy's national laboratories. DOE's laboratories house world-class facilities where more than 30,000 scientists and engineers perform cutting-edge research spanning DOE's science, energy, National security and environmental quality missions. DOE Pulse is distributed twice each month. Each issue will include research highlights, updates on collaborations among laboratories, and profiles of individual researchers.

DOE Pulse is published in both HTML and PDF formats.

Elpub2007

http://www.elpub.net/

Call for Papers.

11th International Conference on Electronic Publishing 13 to 15 June 2007, Vienna (Austria).

Encyclopedia of Earth

http://www.eoearth.org/

“The Encyclopedia is a free, fully searchable collection of articles written by scholars, professionals, educators, and experts who collaborate and review each other's work.”

Engineers: what can your academic library do for you

http://www.engsc.ac.uk/er/snas/library.asp

From the HE Academy: Engineering Subject Centre, and compiled by Elizabeth Gadd.

Environmental Software Directory

http://www.ehssoftserve.com/Edirectory/index.htm

The Environmental Software Directory is a subscription-based, searchable, on-line directory of software and electronic resources for environmental management, compliance, investigation, remediation, and the design, operation and maintenance of pollution control equipment.

ERCIM News 67

http://www.ercim.org/publication/Ercim_News/EN67.pdf

The latest issue of the newsletter from the European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics.

European Bioinformatics Institute: EBI

http://www.ebi.ac.uk/

The European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) is a non-profit academic organisation that forms part of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL).

The EBI is a centre for research and services in bioinformatics. The Institute manages databases of biological data including nucleic acid, protein sequences and macromolecular structures.

European Composite Industry Forum: ECIF

http://www.ecif.org/

A new website has been opened providing a platform for executives and professionals within the European Composite Industry, called ECIF. This platform will give any qualified individual working in the Composite Industry the opportunity to exchange information and idea's and at the same time offer the opportunity to locate other professionals with similar interest.

Evergreen

http://www.evergreenengineering.com/

“Evergreen is a full-service engineering company with strong credentials, capabilities, and experience in a variety of industries. Our goal is to provide the finest and most effective engineering services possible to clients throughout North America and beyond.”

geology.com

http://geology.com/

Includes a geology dictionary, geologist job listing, geologic time scale, geology news, etc.

They have recently completed two collections of online reference maps and Landsat images. The first is a collection of 250 U.S. State maps which include a raised relief map, elevation map, rivers map, political map and roads/cities map. These link to their state and city satellite images, waterfalls map, state high points map and more. See: US State Map Collections

They also have a growing collection of over 100 country maps paired with Landsat images. See: World Country Maps: Country Satellite Images

Hebridean Connections

http://www.hebrideanconnections.com/

Here you will find over 40,000 records relating to the genealogy, history, traditions, culture and archaeology of the Western Isles, an island community off the west coast of Scotland.

HFSP Journal

http://hfspj.aip.org/

The HFSP Journal aims to publish high quality, innovative interdisciplinary basic research at the frontier of biology over a wide range of organizational levels (from the molecular level to population biology) using principles strategies or technologies from the more quantitative disciplines (e.g. physics, chemistry, mathematics, engineering, or informatics).

Hiroshima University Institutional Repository

http://ir.lib.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/portal/index_e.html

Hiroshima University Institutional Repository (HIR) is an electronic library that collects and preserves intellectual digital materials from research activities on Hiroshima University and opens them to the public.

There are some links to other Japanese Institutional Repositories here.

Information Technologies and International Development: ITID

http://www.mitpressjournals.org/loi/itid

Information Technologies and International Development (ITID) has become the first journal published by The MIT Press to participate in the open access initiative. Now you can retrieve peer-reviewed full text PDF articles from the journal’s website, free of charge

informaworld beta

http://www.informaworld.com/

informaworld beta, the place to explore publications from Taylor & Francis, Routledge, Informa Healthcare and Psychology Press.

Instant Magazine

http://www.instantmagazine.co.uk/

Café culture and lifestyle magazine for Edinburgh. Full of useful information.

International Conference on Compressors and their Systems

http://www.imeche.org.uk/events/event.asp?id=561&year=&type=

3 day Conference, 10-09-2007 - 12-09-2007 at the Cass Business School, City University, London

Internet for Modern Languages

http://www.vts.intute.ac.uk/he/tutorial/languages

A new, free, interactive tutorial.

IT Compliance Conference: Interesting Landscape on the Other Side of the Information Fence

http://www.freepint.com/issues/191006.htm#feature

An article in FreePint, by Robin Neidorf.

IUPAC-NIST Solubility Data Series

http://srdata.nist.gov/solubility/

A database containing solubilities originally published in the IUPAC (International Union for Pure and Applied Chemistry) - NIST Solubility Data Series is now available online.

Mutual solubilities and liquid-liquid equilibria of binary, ternary and quaternary systems are presented. Typical solvents and solutes include water, sea water, heavy water, inorganic compounds, and a variety of organic compounds such as hydrocarbons, halogenated hydrocarbons, alcohols, acids, esters and nitrogen compounds. For many systems, sufficient data were available to allow critical evaluation. Data are expressed as mass and mole fractions as well as the originally reported units.

Jan Szczepanski's lists of OA-journals

http://www.his.se/templates/vanligwebbsida1.aspx?id=20709

Jan Szczepanski, a librarian at Göteborg University, has collected links and information on Open Access journals for years. His lists contain over 4500 current OA-journals and 757 historic.

JISC

http://www.jisc.ac.uk/

JISC has a new website.

JISC’s activities support education and research by promoting innovation in new technologies and by the central support of ICT services.

JISC Collections

http://www.jisc-collections.ac.uk/

JISC Collections has a new site.

JISC Collections negotiates for and where appropriate licences online resources on behalf of further and higher education and the research councils.

Library Student Journal

http://informatics.buffalo.edu/org/lsj/index.php

A peer-reviewed student publication of the University at Buffalo Department of Library and Information Studies

Living Clean

http://www.livingclean.co.uk/

A website dedicated to helping people protect the environment by using environmentally friendly cleaning products.

Making Search More Relevant

http://www.searchengineguide.com/clay/008621.html

An article by Bruce Clay

"...Yahoo plans to put the human touch back in its search results. It is currently in the process of combining human advice with machine automation in order to provide its audience with more relevant results...Google is also exploring ways to improve search results with Google Co-op."

MeasurementDB

http://www.measurementdb.com/

Free, searchable information on Measurements in Industry & Science

MeasurementMedia

http://www.measurementmedia.com/

In-depth Measurement News and Searchable Resources

MySpace Questions Answered

http://websearch.about.com/od/myspace/a/myspacequestion.htm

Find Out What's Behind The MySpace Buzz. By Wendy Bosswell.

National Biological Information Infrastructure: NBII

http://www.nbii.gov/

“The National Biological Information Infrastructure (NBII) is a broad, collaborative program to provide increased access to data and information on the nation's biological resources. The NBII links diverse, high-quality biological databases, information products, and analytical tools maintained by NBII partners and other contributors in government agencies, academic institutions, non-government organizations, and private industry. NBII partners and collaborators also work on new standards, tools, and technologies that make it easier to find, integrate, and apply biological resources information. Resource managers, scientists, educators, and the general public use the NBII to answer a wide range of questions related to the management, use, or conservation of this nation's biological resources.”

National Emergency Managment Summit (the Summit).

http://www.emergencymanagementsummit.com/

The Leading Forum on Medical Preparation and Response to Disasters, Epidemics and Terrorism, March 4 - 6, 2007 at the New Orleans Marriott.

Nature Nanotechnology

http://www.nature.com/nnano/index.html

Nature Publishing Group (NPG) is delighted to announce the launch of Nature Nanotechnology, a new research journal dedicated to all aspects of nanoscience and nanotechnology.

NewPages.com

http://www.newpages.com/

“News, information and guides to independent bookstores, independent publishers, literary periodicals, alternative periodicals, independent record labels, alternative newsweeklies and more.”

Newsline

http://edina.ac.uk/news/newsline11-3/index.html

The October issue of the newsletter of EDINA, a JISC-funded National Datacentre.

Oak Law Report

http://www.oaklaw.qut.edu.au/

This Report analyses the copyright law framework needed to ensure open access to outputs of the Australian academic and research sector such as datasets, articles and theses.

Oil Industry Jobs

http://www.oil-industry-jobs.com/

Features details on offshore oil rig jobs and drilling employment aboard rigs and in gas fields around the world.

Online Information

http://www.online-information.co.uk/

28 – 30 Nov, Olympia, London.

Online Information is a 3 day international exhibition and conference addressing online content and information management solutions including:
Business Information
STM Information
ePublishing Solutions
Library Management Solutions.

OpenDOAR Search Repository Contents

http://www.opendoar.org/search.php

“OpenDOAR is pleased to present a trial search service for the full-text of material held in open access repositories listed in the Directory.”

OpenDOAR already provides a global Directory of freely available open access repositories that hold research material.

PhDjobs

http://www.phdjobs.com/

Search for jobs relevant to your academic discipline

Podcast Directory

http://www.podfeed.net/

Podfeed.net is a podcast directory that helps you find podcasts, read and write podcast reviews, listen to podcasts and share your podcast with others.

Podscope

http://www.podscope.com/

Podscope lets you search the spoken word for audio and video that interests you.

Progress in Informatics

http://www.nii.ac.jp/pi/

Serving as an interdisciplinary forum for researchers and practitioners of informatics.

Rural Economy and Land Use: RELU

http://relu.esds.ac.uk/

The Rural Economy and Land Use (RELU) Programme's Data Support Service (DSS) has been set up to help oversee and implement the Data management policy and Data management plan. The DSS is a co-ordinated service between the UK Data Archive, a service provider for ESDS, based at the University of Essex and the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology at Lancaster.

Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography

http://epress.lib.uh.edu/sepb/sepb.html

Version 64 of the Scholarly Electronic Publishing Bibliography is now available. This selective bibliography presents over 2,780 articles, books, and other printed and electronic sources that are useful in understanding scholarly electronic publishing efforts on the Internet.

This is the 10th anniversary version of SEPB, whose first version was published in October 1996.

Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge 2006

http://www.sciencemag.org/sciext/vis2006/

“Science and the National Science Foundation are pleased to announce the winners of the fourth annual Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge. The links on this page will take you to articles describing the accomplishments of the creative and gifted scientists, artists, and others who put the winning entries together, as well as an online slide presentation that showcases the competition's winners and honorable mentions. All material is freely available for all site visitors.”

Science|Business

http://sciencebusiness.net/

“Science|Business is the first independent news service that brings together buyers and sellers of emerging technologies - through its online news coverage, its subscriber-posting service, and its exclusive networking events”

SciPy

http://www.scipy.org/

SciPy (pronounced "Sigh Pie") is open-source software for mathematics, science, and engineering. It is also the name of a very popular conference on scientific programming with Python. The core library is NumPy which provides convenient and fast N-dimensional array manipulation. The SciPy library is built to work with NumPy arrays, and provides many user-friendly and efficient numerical routines such as routines for numerical integration and optimization.

Solicitor List

http://www.solicitorlist.co.uk/

A solicitor directory listing almost 14,000 UK solicitors.

studybookshop.com

http://www.studybookshop.com/

studybookshop.com is an online textbook exchange that provides students and graduates with an easy way to buy and sell secondhand student books.

Tales from the Terminal Room

http://www.rba.co.uk/tfttr/archives/2006/sep2006.shtml

September 2006, Issue No. 73, is available, and full of useful information.

TempSensor Net

http://www.tempsensor.net/

TempSensor Net is a Free Web Community established as a special resource for temperature sensor equipment sellers and users. It enables them all to interact in new ways on the web

ToxSeek

http://toxSeek.nlm.nih.gov

ToxSeek is a meta-search engine that enables simultaneous searching of many different information resources on the World Wide Web.

ToxSeek uses natural language processing and artificial intelligence to retrieve, integrate, rank, and present search results as coherent and dynamic sets.

UK Banks Guide

http://www.theinvestingsite.com/banks.htm

A UK Banks Guide complete with information on each of the major UK banks and building societies as well as an overview of the various types of bank accounts available from high street and online banks, plus banks by town.

UKSG Publishers' Price Lists

http://www.uksg.org/pricelists.asp

UKSG has undertaken to collect publishers' pricing announcements to simplify the renewals process for serials librarians by providing a central look up point.

vnicegrants

http://www.wearev.com/grants/

A charity for volunteers.

Zimbio

http://www.zimbio.com/

A community site to help you research and learn about any topic.

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NICE WEB SITE

In the course of finding sites of interest for this Newsletter, we sometimes come across Web sites which we feel deserve slightly more than a passing mention. Each month we will pick out one or more such sites, and give them a short review. The sites will normally be UK based, may be small or large, and be of interest or potential interest to academics. After lengthy discussions we have decided, with incredible creativity :-), to call these: Nice Web Sites. Details of previous Nice Web Sites are available in the Nice Web Site Archive.

Hebridean Connections
http://www.hebrideanconnections.com/

Completely different from the usual sites selected for the Nice Web Site accolade, this month I've chosen the Hebridean Connections website, because there is so much real personal history to be found in it. Check out "The Epic Battle of Wick" 1859, for example, which started over a disagreement about an apple.

RM

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BLOGORAMA

News about Blogs, RSS, etc:

You already know what blogs are, but for more information about RSS see the Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_(protocol) or Webopedia http://www.webopedia.com/TERM/R/RSS.html

The Internet Resources Newsletter has an RSS feed (essentially the Table of Contents for each issue): http://www.hw.ac.uk/libwww/irn/irn.rss
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Google RSS reader revamped.
http://www.rba.co.uk/rss/2006/09/google-rss-reader-revamped.html
Karen Blakeman reviews the new reader.

Library 2.0 Theory: Web 2.0 and Its Implications for Libraries
http://www.webology.ir/2006/v3n2/a25.html
An article in Webology, by Jack M. Maness

How to Make Bloglines Work For You
http://websearch.about.com/od/dailywebsearchtips/qt/dnt0808.htm
An article by Wendy Boswell

Postami
http://www.postami.com/
A blog directory, an RSS feed finder, etc.

5 great blogs on search and research
http://www.pandia.com/sew/296-search-blogs.html

Seriously Blogging
A short article by Ian Winship

There are millions of blogs, but how can you identify those ‘serious’ ones that might be of value in an academic, business or other occupational context?

For something specific you can try searching the big directories like Technorati: http://www.technorati.com/ or Bloglines: http://www.bloglines.com/ . Technorati shows when things were last updated and how many blogs link to the listed ones, which helps to indicate which might be best. Similarly the Bloglines directory shows how many subscribers each has.

To browse likely blogs in a subject is more difficult, since the subject organised directories can cover only a fraction of what is available. Yahoo's directory: http://dir.yahoo.com/Computers_and_Internet/Internet/World_Wide_Web/Weblogs/ is helpful, but quite selective, and though QuackTrack: http://www.quacktrack.com/ has what is probably the best subdivision of categories of any of the directories, there are no descriptions – these are necessary given the cryptic nature of many blog titles. Blogarama: http://www.blogarama.com/ has a user rating system, but perhaps of dubious value. Other subject directories include Getblogs: http://www.getblogs.com/ and High Class Blogs: http://www.highclassblogs.com/ )